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    We deserve a black future

    Aug 21, 2020 3 minutes
    BY PHARRELL WILLIAMS WITH MICHAEL HARRIOT
    IMAGE BY PHARRELL IN COLLABORATION WITH EMILY SHUR AND HANK WILLIS THOMAS

    N APRIL 26, 1607, THREE SHIPS CARRYING 105 men and boys landed on the eastern shore of what would come to be called America. They called themselves “adventurers.” But they had no interest in liberty or justice, and they were not seeking religious freedom or escaping from tyranny. They were part of the Virginia Company of London, which was essentially a private-equity-funded startup that hoped to turn a profit for the stockholders in Europe’s fastest-growing international moneymaking scheme: colonialism.

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